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Latest Forum Threads in WaspsenWed, 22 Jul 2015 19:22:29 GMTJive SBS 4.5.6.0 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/)2015-07-22T19:22:29ZenIs this Mellinus arvensis?http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23791
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:793d5ce0-9dd1-4a1b-95c5-7ea2abb04c75] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>These wasps appear to be boring into a softwood sleeper. <a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-69006-103039/IMG_1020+-+Version+2.JPG"><img alt="IMG_1020 - Version 2.JPG" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="403" onclick="" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-69006-103039/450-403/IMG_1020+-+Version+2.JPG" width="450"/></a></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:793d5ce0-9dd1-4a1b-95c5-7ea2abb04c75] -->Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:22:29 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23791David Buckingham2015-07-22T19:22:29Z1 week, 4 days ago10Unidentified Wasp like bughttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23645
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:7ee9a80f-4e64-4802-b618-f7c4312f4a47] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hello, could someone identify this critter for me please.&#160; Saw him in the garden this afternoon and can't find a picture of anything similar.&#160; My husband has 3 beehives and I wondered if it is a threat to them.&#160; It's quite large.&#160; Many thanks</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:7ee9a80f-4e64-4802-b618-f7c4312f4a47] -->Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:56:15 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23645Hulby2015-07-17T19:56:15Z2 weeks, 1 day ago430Unusual wasp activityhttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23629
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:9903b265-ab17-40da-8f2b-7b9bb8927a4b] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hiya, I am emailing regarding something a bit unusual that happened to my partner and I last night while on holiday in Tintern. We were staying in a converted shepherds hut and the site 'cabin' had a wasps nest within the external wooden frame. The owner of the site had alerted us to it earlier and advised he had called for pest control. Last night we started a fire by our hut and around 2200 my partner and I heard very loud buzzing coming towards us then heard something hit the ground ( it sounded like someone had dropped a stone ). I shone my phones light on it and saw three wasps ( definitely wasps as I could see their heads and they were all approx 5cm long, large heads ) in some kind of curled up fight? My boyfriend went to get the torch and by the time he came back and I managed to film this there was only one and a half of the wasps left?! There was blood on the remaining wasp. Sorry that the video isn't massively clear but I had never seen anything like this and spent the evening researching if wasps kill each other and I couldn't see anything to say they usually do- so to see three fighting and killing each other like that was quite strange! Any help would be appreciated, thanks,</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:9903b265-ab17-40da-8f2b-7b9bb8927a4b] -->waspsFri, 17 Jul 2015 11:22:00 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23629Kaydavies2015-07-17T11:22:00Z2 weeks, 2 days ago10Help with identityhttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23404
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:55d8787e-8f78-4052-9108-8e51404191ab] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Dear All,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Can anyone identify this winged insect/bug that I found in my garden in Lincoln,Lincolnshire 09/07/15? I wondered if it was some type of wasp? It is quite large measuring approx 3cm in length. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Regards</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>RuthF</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:55d8787e-8f78-4052-9108-8e51404191ab] -->fliesgiantbugsididentifywaspsneed_idwingswaspwasp/fly/beewasp?wasp_identificationThu, 09 Jul 2015 17:44:01 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23404RuthF2015-07-09T17:44:01Z3 weeks, 1 day ago650Please could you help me identify this beautiful creature...found in Peterborough UK.http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23159
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:cec82df5-d1ac-4875-a821-f6c57c4d274f] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><P>Please could someone help me find this insects name. It was found in my back garden in Peterborough UK. It appeared to have a weak flight pattern, flopping in and out of the grass before picking up momentum and flying, at low level, away.</P><P>&#160;</P><P>It had been suggested to me that it was a Podalonia hirsuta, but this had no thread-waist, had a white patch on it's 'snout' and the white marking on the thorax. Plus, I felt, the abdomen was a different shape from the suggested wasp.</P><P>&#160;</P><P>&#160;</P><P>Many thanks in advance for any help you can give.</P><P>&#160;</P><P>Nikk.</P></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:cec82df5-d1ac-4875-a821-f6c57c4d274f] -->fliesinsectidentifyTue, 30 Jun 2015 07:29:31 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23159Nikk2015-06-30T07:29:31Z3 weeks, 4 days ago430can you please identify this wasp/hornethttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23236
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:5f3b67eb-28f1-430c-b00a-9e4ff36cd61f] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi found this in my garden in northamptonshire, identify please and do i let it go?</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:5f3b67eb-28f1-430c-b00a-9e4ff36cd61f] -->Fri, 03 Jul 2015 18:46:50 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23236adyee2015-07-03T18:46:50Z1 month, 4 hours ago210What is this wasphttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23067
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:c0cfd94e-1678-40e0-ba2d-34361df88ed1] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-67062-100306/DSC_0238.JPG"><img alt="DSC_0238.JPG" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="370" onclick="" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-67062-100306/450-370/DSC_0238.JPG" width="450"/></a></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:c0cfd94e-1678-40e0-ba2d-34361df88ed1] -->Fri, 26 Jun 2015 10:04:30 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/23067DavidA2015-06-26T10:04:30Z1 month, 1 week ago320What sort of hornet is this?http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/22884
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:921a332c-791b-4612-862a-aafbc25fe820] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>I found this in a bedroom looking very sleepy this afternoon. It is about 3.2cm long, bigger than others I have seen. I am in the Chilterns near Tring. 5 photos attached. Let me know if you need any others. I have caught it in a jar and it is not looking happy.</p><p>Thank you</p><p>Isobel</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:921a332c-791b-4612-862a-aafbc25fe820] -->Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:58:24 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/22884isobel2015-06-17T15:58:24Z1 month, 2 weeks ago760We have a small wasp problem.http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/22719
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:e1f08d8a-ca83-4c68-93b2-4d38537c6fd0] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Hello, for the last few months we've had 3 solitary wasp nests in our shed, and we've just let them be since it's been the same for the past 6 or so years. Anyway, earlier today we noticed a rather dramatic increase in the number of wasps in the garden, so we checked, and lo and behold the nest that was on the door to the shed has doubled in size (now roughly 9cm in diameter) and had at least a dozen of the buggers on it, probably more than twenty, but I got out of there pretty sharpish! The nest is much too small to house all of them, but they were swarming over it and looked pretty busy, though they didn't take kindly to my presence. <br/>Does anyone have any advice on what to do in this situation? Everything I've read so far online seems to be talking about a much bigger nest, is it possible that these wasps are just gathering to mate or something similar?</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:e1f08d8a-ca83-4c68-93b2-4d38537c6fd0] -->Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:54:12 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/22719cannibalcrickets2015-06-10T16:54:12Z1 month, 2 weeks ago320Oak Gall? Will it damage oak seedling?http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/22044
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:25dd81ed-f24c-4bcc-a167-a580f61cc1b2] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Can you tell me if this berry like object attached to an oak seedling is a wasp gall? Can you also tell me if the gall will damage the seedling, which is only about 3 years old and still quite slender? I'm curious to see what comes out of the gall but also want to preserve the seedling. </p><p><a href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/2-64114-97354/DSCF8357+%282%29.jpg"><img alt="DSCF8357 (2).jpg" class="jive-image-thumbnail jive-image" height="426" onclick="" src="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/2-64114-97354/450-426/DSCF8357+%282%29.jpg" width="450"/></a> </p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:25dd81ed-f24c-4bcc-a167-a580f61cc1b2] -->waspsTue, 12 May 2015 17:31:08 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/22044Mary2015-05-12T17:31:08Z1 month, 2 weeks ago320Please help me identifyhttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/17733
<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:76fda7a0-e2ef-4c9d-b43a-201ecf3f64ce] --><div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>seen in and around dead wood in Norfolk. One killed and carried away a flesh fly.</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:76fda7a0-e2ef-4c9d-b43a-201ecf3f64ce] -->need_idwoodwasp/fly/beeTue, 30 Sep 2014 22:19:31 GMThttp://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/thread/17733plantain2014-09-30T22:19:31Z1 month, 2 weeks ago210